bin

Meaning

Noun

1. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
2. A container for rubbish or waste.
3. Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc
4. Any of the fixed-size chunks into which airspace is divided for the purposes of radar.
5. (slang) Jail or prison.
6. (slang) Short for loony bin (“lunatic asylum”).
7. A digital file folder for organising media in a non-linear editing program.

Verb

1. (informal) To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
2. (informal) To throw away, reject, give up.
3. To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
4. To place into a bin for storage.

Contraction

Contraction of being.

Verb

Alternative form of been

Synonyms

container

binful

pot

receptacle

vessel

garbage can

chest

repository

cellar

box

📦

storehouse

granary

bucket

🪣

basket

🧺

barn

coffer

silo

trash can

bunker

stock room

storage

warehouse

potful

receiver

receptor

repertory

reservoir

rubbish

rubbish bin

stock

storage tank

store

storeroom

stowage

throw away

tidy

tin

tin can

toss

toss out

trash

trash bin

trashcan

trough

tub

vase

vault

wastebasket

🗑️

waste bin

Dumpster

stockhouse

promptuary

caseful

still room

charging spout

storage magazine

charging bucket

magnetic tape filing cabinet

acceptor

rubish bin

barrel

batcher

binary

bowl

chuck out

cistern

depository

dish

garbage

🗑️

garner

handbasket

hopper

hutch

jar

🫙

larder

locker

magazine

pail

pantry

pigeonhole

pod

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English binne, from Old English binne (“crib, manger”), from Proto-West Germanic *binnu, *binnā, from Gaulish benna (“four-wheeled cart; caisson”) (compare Old Irish buinne, Welsh benn (“cart”), Old Breton benn (“caisson”)). Cognate with West Frisian bin (“wicker basket”), Middle Dutch benne (“basket”), whence modern Dutch ben (“wicker basket”), German Benne (“wheelbarrow”).